Asus announced on Tuesday that they are releasing two new versions of their Eee Box, with some new features.
The new versions have a high definition hardware decoder (a Radeon 3400), HDMI out and a remote. The hardware decoder should improve performance, possibly making this a decent choice for a HTPC solutions. While the hardware and software seem better, I’d like to see it come in other colors, so it doesn’t look so much like a Wii. No word on pricing or availability yet, although we can reasonably put it above $300 with the added cost of the video card.
I really don’t get what Asus is doing with these things. They’re really missing out on the one killer feature that this box needs, a 56k modem.
These things are tailor made for people on a fixed income, but they’re lacking the one piece of hardware necessary for those very people to get online. This thing would be the perfect vehicle to get newbs on the internet, if it only had the hardware necessary to do so on the cheap.
can you ban me here as well? as there?
yeah asus always was trying to hard to be gates… you know what i mean.